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[bluemeringue]

As you probably noticed, we recently redesigned the LiveJournal global navigation menu to improve site useability, based on input we received from both new and experienced users. Our goal is to make LiveJournal features and products as intuitive and easy-to-use as possible. At this juncture, we'd like to get your detailed suggestions on what you

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[trobadora]

The link to the help/support page should really show up somewhere in the menu, not just up top. (And after all, most other links there are duplicated in the menu as well.)

(In XColibur, there is now no link to the support page left at all. But nonetheless - yay for getting that site scheme updated too!)

[ldymusyc]

-- "My Stuff" is an unprofessional name, trying too hard to be cool. If you insist on using a "my $foo" header, make it "My LJ" or something similar. Preference would be to put it back to "profile".

-- Entry icons are seriously blurry. Scaling them up to match the new icons was a bad idea - especially since they don't match in color. Replace them all. I see that's a cache issue. Nvmd.

-- Change menu link for "userpics" to "edit userpics". As it reads now, I expect to view my icons from that link.

-- Vgifts. Please go back to the old method of letting them expire off the page. Forcing me to remember that I have to select them in order for them to go makes it more likely that I'll turn them off completely just so they stop irritating me by hanging around.

[pauamma]

Thirded on the "vgifts no longer expire" thing.

[kabukimono]

Agreeing that the header icons on entries look incredibly blurry and hard to look at it, scaling them up was a bad idea. You should probably either replace them all or change them back

[eyeslikefirefly]

I didn't even realize it did that. I thought the link was completely gone.

LJ: please change it.

[sandelwood]

I am not 13, and this isn't MySpace. "My Stuff" is juvenile. Change it back.

Stop changing things without announcing it before. I don't see anywhere that users (new or old) asked for these changes.

Stop wasting time messing with things that don't need changing and fix the problems that continue to plague this site. Like the fact that many users seem unable to actually USE your site right now.

Listen to us. We are pissed off that you don't.

[sentine]

am not 13, and this isn't MySpace. "My Stuff" is juvenile. Change it back.

Exactly. And in French, it's even more ridiculous: "Mes Affaires", which could be translated as "My Business"

[matgb]

the fact that many users seem unable to actually USE your site right now.

Which is why they've redesigned the menues to make them easier to use so that more people can use the site, a long delayed overhal that they've known they needed to do years ago.

SRSLY, don't mistake "I've not seen anyone request this" as meaning "no one requested this", the usability of LJ is awful.

And the people that do front end design/chrome work are different to the people that do backend technical work, ergo this hasn't made a difference to other problems (which are, in some cases, bloody stupid, some of the "Known Issues" have been there for a year now FFS).

[sandelwood]

Did you just pick a random pissed off comment to bitch at?

This push completely broke IE usability, plebe. People could not use their journals. At all. Which had nothing to do with whether or not the menus are easy to understand, or the buttons are cute and shiny. By fucking with front end shit, they broke back end shit. Which happens every fucking time they push something like this through.

I'm considerably less pissed about the design changes than I am that they don't listen to us. They don't LISTEN.